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Paul Claude Moultou (1731–1797), French Huguenot pastor

Born of a well-off protestant family, he was taken by his father to Geneva for his studies; ordained minister 1754; named a bourgeois of Geneva 1755; married Marianne Cayla the same year. Resigned the ministry for reasons of conscience 1773; a great admirer of Jean Jacques Rousseau; entrusted by Rousseau with his unpublished manuscripts before his death 1778; published the first part of Rousseau's Confessions with Du Peyrou 1782.